How To Be A Baller On A Budget

Now there are so many ways to be thrifty, from using discounts codes everywhere you shop, to getting cash back on more expensive purchases and vetoing hotels for hostels when travelling.

So here are our top tips on how not to be broke…

Sell your old clothes

We’re all out here just trying to live that Gucci lifestyle on a Primark budget, and trust us, it can’t be done. But you could probably get to mid-range. Like Zara pre-sale level of boujee (you know what we’re saying).

Now there are so many ways to be thrifty, from using discounts codes everywhere you shop, to getting cash back on more expensive purchases and vetoing hotels for hostels when travelling.

So here are our top tips on how not to be broke…

Sell your old clothes

The most handy tip of all (especially if you’re a student) is to sell your unused clothes. We know, it’s hard. But getting rid of the Tommy Hilfiger jacket you splurged on three years ago and is now just gathering dust in your wardrobe is smart.

Why have clothing clutter your life when it can fill your pockets instead, y’know? Get yourself on Depop.

Shop second hand

Second-hand vintage clothing shops are amazing. You can find incredible designer pieces at a bargain. Trust us, the tiny stain on the bottom back of a Ralph Lauren shirt won’t bother you after a solid saving.

Happy hour is your friend

Find anywhere with a happy hour. If your friend insists on pre-drinking at a bar because we’re all grown up and sophisticated now, then direct them straight to an all-night double or nothing drinks sesh.

Incognito mode is a life saver

This trick can work for a whole range of purchases. Google tracks your cookies, history and all of that internet weird stuff that we know nothing about. It basically means that the internet knows what you like, so it pushes up the prices on certain consumer products (it’s called dynamic pricing), such as flights, clothing or that weird dog umbrella you keep adding to your basket but never purchase.

Turn on incognito mode when you open up your browser and voilà you’re, well, incognito. Solves the problem.

Discount codes are everywhere

Discount codes are life. Use them, no one’s judging. Full price is for fools and fools alone. Even when you’re ordering food. Simply Google the best discount bots and add them to your browser.

Bots instantly add any discount codes available on the WWW. Pizza Hut even have one built into their site, now that’s handy. Don’t forget to visit sites that are built solely to collate all of the magical discount codes available on the web too.

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Digital mastering

Digital mastering is simply an updated service. This involves the sending a receiving of files between the mastering house and the customer using the internet. This way making the process more efficient and less time consuming so we can pass the savings onto you , the customer.

The sites we would recommend using to upload your tracks would be:

CD Mastering

With CD mastering, we can produce warm detail mastered from your original music. We also recommend you leave it as close to the original as possible, as we have a collection of superb valve compressors and EQs that are beyond the budget of many recording studios.

Our mastering techniques include passing the signal from our Sadie mastering system through pristine converters.

The Cutting Suite Mixdown service

We offer a full mix-down service for all the most popular software music production packages available today, in both PC and Mac formats. You can also bring multi-track files of your Protools sessions or from a 24-track tape transfer.

We can import these files into Sadie 5, or Protools to be re-mixed using our extensive array of plug-ins and outboard for reverb, delay and dynamics to achieve stunning-quality mixes using our superb monitoring systems.